The cost of gas to families has almost tripled, rising by 190 per cent, in just ten years, the Office for National Statistics said today. The cost of electricity has increased by 120 per cent in the same period, meaning it has more than doubled.

In the same period, the average price of all household goods, measured with the Consumer Price Index, has risen by just over 30 per cent.

In March 2003 the Blair government published an Energy White Paper. In its Section 4.7 it says explicitly:

We have introduced a Renewables Obligation for England and Wales in April 2002. This will incentivise generators to supply progressively higher levels of renewable energy over time. The cost is met through higher prices to consumers. By 2010, it is estimated that this support and Climate Change Levy (CCL) exemption will be worth around £1 billion a year to the UK renewables industry.

The “Renewables” industry and its crony capitalist Green Energy tycoons cashed in while British families froze. 5 Million households in the UK now suffer from Energy Poverty.

National Energy Action, a so-called Fuel Poverty charity, but in actuality another Green Energy industry front, wrote, “Future energy policy can only contribute to a socially just transition to a low carbon society if households experiencing fuel poverty are given the resources to reduce their energy demand.”

In the perverse reasoning of the Greenocrats, forcing poor households to freeze is socially just.

This is what the Green Nightmare really looks like.

The data show that the majority of households in fuel poverty in the UK contain “vulnerable” individuals, defined by the government as elderly, disabled, the long-term sick, or children. According to Age UK, the UK’s largest charity for older people, almost half the people living in fuel poverty were over 60. Michelle Mitchell, the charity director of Age UK, said: “Research shows many older people are forced to choose between eating and heating their homes, causing illness and in extreme cases, needless deaths.”

The UK government put together a white paper that proposes a plan that will guarantee a fixed price for electricity and include a carbon price floor effective in 2013 that will make it more costly to run coal and natural gas plants.

So in other words, they will set a fixed price for electricity while making the production of electricity much more expensive. How could this plan possibly fail?

Using the same economic logic, Venezuela is facing toilet paper shortages. But Cubans make do by using government propaganda papers as toilet papers. What will UK pensioners use to heat their homes? Burn Green Energy propaganda brochures?